George Stanley Godwin, a somewhat eccentric writer, lawyer and romantic, suffered an unhappy schooling in an English public school. An exciting period in pre-war Dresden preceded a decision to homestead in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. Godwin and his bride struggled and failed in their endeavours. Returning to Europe he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force that led to the trenches of Vimy in the Great War. Invalided with tuberculosis he spent a year in a sanatorium in the interior of British Columbia, met and fell in love with a young occupational therapist. Married with two young...